B1 · 5 minutes · History

William Taft: Heavy

William Howard Taft followed Theodore Roosevelt as president and later became the top judge of the Supreme Court. A VOA Learning English report.

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What you’ll practise

Understand reasons, the past perfect and adverbs.

Words to know

contradict: To go against or say the opposite of.
advance: To move forward.
governor general: A person who governs a territory for another country.

Words at this lesson’s level (B1)

At B1, you probably know about 97% of the words in this lesson.

The other words of this lesson are at B1 or below.

Word levels from the CEFR-J Wordlist 1.5 (Yukio Tono, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies); words not in it count as above B2. Your level is the one you chose in the level guide, otherwise the lesson’s.

Source

Text and audio from “William Taft: Heavy”, America's Presidents, VOA Learning English, published 2023-08-26. Public domain.

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